Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ — Restaurant in Brea

Went here for their all you can eat promotions that is running from Jan to the end of February. The food was good. The meats all taste great and were noticeably better than most KBBQ places in the SoCal area. What I mark down on though is their time limit. They say that the time limit is 1.5 hours and that's perfectly fine... except when they told us that we could only put in one more order as we have reached our time limit 40 minutes into eating. Even timed, we arrived at the restaurant at 7:30PM, we were seated in about 5 minutes and took another 10 minutes to decide what package we wanted to order, the $30 or the $40. We didn't get our first order out until about 7:55 and they said our last order was at 8:35PM. So even had the time started as soon as we entered the restaurant, which was 7:35PM, we technically should have been able to eat until at least 9:00PM. Adding that we didn't even get our first order until around 8:00PM.... 35-40 minutes is ridiculous.

So outside of that, food was good, and service was okay. They take a long time to get...

My family and I had a fantastic experience at Gyu Kaku in Brea last Saturday! The service was exceptional - the staff were friendly, attentive, and explained the cooking process clearly. We appreciated how the waiter would let us know how much time we should cook each raw meat, and the order of cooking the meat. The food was fresh and the dessert was excellent! The restaurant was very clean. We couldnt see any fly inside the restaurant. We were impressed by how quickly our food arrived. The owner, and a few other waiters were bilingual, and could speak Cantonese. Everytime when we visit, we feel very welcomed and we appreciate the hospitality. We have visited a few other Gyu Kaku branches and this one is definitely our favorite. We will continue to be loyal customers at the Brea branch and will come back soon! Highly recommend to anyone who love...

The Gyu Kaku in Brea smells like rotten eggs. It is the most disappointing thing ever! My boyfriend and I have reached out so many times in so many ways to try to get this resolved because we used to frequent the location in Huntington Beach. However I guess they all have different owners and this one does not care that his location smells like an outhouse. It is so sad because they are always empty no matter what day it is and the employees even take breaks outside to eat because of the smell. Its a well known issue thats not being dealt with and they blame the city. I don't care I just want my yummy gyu kaku experience minus the ROTTEN EGG SMELL. 😪

Update: the smell was a lot lighter to the point we were able to eat a meal and the food was very good. Place was clean and server was very fast...